| Show SUM SUMMER MER CARE FOR THE CALF Unless Young Animals Are Kept Grow Ing During First Year Final Development Is Retarded By R R. R it M. M W WASHBURN ASHBURN Minnesota FT Ex Ex- Pertin Station Station The first year of a cabs life is the most important nt with growth T Unless respect to its animals are kept growing during this period their final development will wm be much retarded and the chances chances are they never will reach the sc scale le which their inheritance inherit inherit- ance would give them On the tho best regulated dairy farms calves are born born- in the autumn and sail early winter and andl they should receive skim milk In moderate quantities quantities' quantities quantities' through much or all of or the r summer following birth On farms having hand separators there is no difficulty In providing the sweet milk for calves morning and evening but farmers farmers' who patronize whole milk whole milk creameries creameries' or who still sun skim by hand should re-f re r re j j member that after the first few weep weeks weel milk for calves should either be thoroughly thor thor- sweet or fully sour that the most dangerous condition is the half halt sour our stage if It It milk Is fed to calves when It t is in this changing condition It t Is almost certain to cause tion ion It should not be half hall sour nor sour sour our one day and sweet the next but always one or the other Clean feeding pails must be used otherwise the germs of fermentation and diarrhea will be e brought to the IMaM cow w from the slime of or the dirty drinking dish and with young calves calve it t is ant that the temperature at which the milk Is fed be nearly that hat of the body Older animals may receive milk of at the temperature ot of of the he milk-holding milk tank While it Is very important that heifers should have free access to pasture during the second summer to de develop elop strong bodies the calf need not have pasture the first summer In fact act for calves born after the firsts first of the the year pasturing g may be a di dir r r r advantage Most l young calves calves' in this country country are better off chewing tender bay lay in the quiet and half dark stable than ban fighting flies panting from the heat and cropping tough grass in thel past pasture re |
